On 12/7/2014 18:53, P.J. Alling wrote:
I'll just ignore what everyone else has said and answer here.
Such ignorance won't give you bliss, sir :-).
There have been enough stories, even here, about Lightroom users wanting to for one reason or another wanting to find their original files but not knowing how, as Lightroom moved them somewhere, (imported them into it's database), and not being able to figure out how to get them back. Adobe want's to control your "photographic" life, they're the Microsoft of imaging, it they do it through creating superior products, well I can't fault them for that, however if it's done by making it as difficulty as possible to back out for other purely arbitrary "mechanical" reason, I'm not OK with that,
Can it be that there is a confusion between data and metadata here. Lightroom is non-destructive editor by definition. That is, it does not change your files (unless you explicitly tell it so). The database in question is that of the metadata - the editing settings, the keyword tags, the ratings, etc.
Now, Lightroom does not offer you any default or automatic manner in which you organize your work and/or files on disk(s). Therefore, in general, if a person tends to be disorganized, and as a result lose things, then it is likely to happen in this context too. Otherwise - well, otherwise...
Don't blame the tools if you don't know the trade. (Not you personally, naturally)
Since then I've been trying to find a product that lets me control where my files live, without having to use their interface that is as straight forward as RSE.
Have you tried RawTherapee??? There is even portable version for Windows, at least.
Lightroom vs Photoshop is a false dichotomy, there are a number of RAW processors, some are quite good, that don't lock you into the Adobe ecosystem, and dictate how you work, none are as seamless as Lightroom has become but then again I've never ended up scratching my head wondering how to get my files back either.
You seem to have made the same point thrice in a course of a single message. Just saying...
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